#Welcome To the Future
Kim Jong-il Has Hackers Gold Farming. No, Seriously.
Reality > fiction. Kim Jong-il of all people has a crack team of hackers farming for gold in Lineage. Which they are then, of course, flipping for some real hard cash. Astounding. Outstanding. Something-ing.
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GM Has Autonomous Pod Car, Will Take You Hands-Free Wherever You Want.
Oh great! GM has an autonomous Pod Car thing, the Electric Networked-Vehicle (EN-V). Someday in the near future you’ll be able to summon this death trap to your side with your smart phone. It’ll appear, you’ll punch in coordinates, and pray the robotic uprising doesn’t happen that day.
Designer Is Training Fungus Suit To Eat Her When She Dies. Yep.
We all imagine what’ll happen to us when we die. I want to be shot out of a cannon onto a mine field where I’ll (hopefully) explode into a million pieces of Former-Caffeine. Designer Jae Rhim Lee wants fungus to eat her body, and she’s designed the Infinity Burial Suit to help that happen.
Buy Groceries In A South Korean Subway Using Augmented Reality. Future Rules.
Welcome the future, where everything is amazing and glimmers. Save for when it’s rotting in glorious dystopian fashion. Anyways. Busy? Need to snag some groceries? Now using the power of augmented reality, South Koreans can get their shopping done. In the subway.
Watch Kids Command A ‘Star Wars’ Battle On Giant Touch Screen. Dorkgasm.
For two years, Arthur Nishimoto has been working on an enormous video game project. The project dreamed up by the University of Illinois at Chicago graduate student is a game that looks a lot like controlling the glorious destruction of a Battlestar or Star Wars battle on a friggin’ enormous multi-touch surface. So swoon.
It’s goddamn gorgeous.
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China Now Offers ‘Online Property’ Insurance. The Future Rules.
More proof that we are merely living in the shadow of China and its ingenious ways these days. They’ve rolled out virtual property insurance. Protect them polygons! Fuck, you’ve spent more time harvesting ore or some shit in EVE Online than you have with your family, and you certainly love it more.
Repeats of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Have Ads Digitally Inserted. Amazing.
Some eagle-eyed citizens of the Internet have come across something friggin’ astounding. Rerun episodes of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ have been digitally altered, inserting advertisements for new movies and the such. Anachronistic like what!
Welcome to the future.
Hit the jump to check them out.
William Gibson Says ‘Cyberspace’ Was Inspired By Old School Arcades.
I’m insane in my geeklust for William Gibson. Totally bananas. He is my God. Everyone knows by now that the dude created the term ‘cyberspace’ and that he imagined a distant future while writing Neuromancer on a friggin’ typewriter. Now we know where he got the inspiration for the word that’s come to worm itself into our Collective Unconscious. Arcades.
Doctors Create Artificial Heart That Doesn’t Beat. It Also Works.
Welcome to the fucking future. Where we eat shit-steaks and we have outstanding artificial hearts that keep us alive, sans-pulse. Whirling glories of devices that apparently actually work. Amazing.
We Can Reverse Aging In Bees’ Brains. Humans Next?
Listen man, I know this is a fucking fluffy pseudoscientific article. I know it is. But let me have this. As I march towards oblivion with the rest of you, I want to believe anything that suggests that science will find a way to stem the mindrot sometime soon, if not the bodyrot.
